Twitter isn't about signing up and sitting back, it's about having interests and following the accounts that feed your interests. For example, I like comics and football, hence I follow DC/Marvel/Dark Horse and many artists and writers. I also follow comic journos and review sites. I also follow numerous football journalists and newspapers.

Videogame journos, sites, developers are also there. As are some musicians and bands.

These people don't come to me, I seek them out. Coupled with Reuters, BBC, Danish news etc. my timeline is a constant stream of things I want to read about.

I dunno about stuff you want to read about. The celebrities, writers and people I investigated following almost always A) never post at all, B) just share stuff that's doing the rounds, or C) actually turn out to be complete dicks. I was actually put off Arrested Development for a while because it transpired that Jason Bateman is actually kind of stupid.

it's equally as trendy to say twitter is shit and the worst thing since sliced hitler, as it is to say how amazing is it. Everyone is a twat basically, apart from me who doesn't really care one way or the other.

superdelphinus wrote:
it's equally as trendy to say twitter is shit and the worst thing since sliced hitler, as it is to say how amazing is it. Everyone is a twat basically, apart from me who doesn't really care one way or the other.

What annoys me is the fact that its shoveled in my face. My mates, tv, radio and pretty much everywhere else. You cant look at anything nowadays with out being asked to 'check us out on blah fucking blah'.

It's mostly just annoyingly endemic of society nowadays. People need a constant stream of information, even if that information is fundamentally worthless. Everyone has to be first and everything has to be live and new.

"Did you see that tweet Brian Cox wrote twenty minutes ago?"
"Twenty minutes ago? Catch the fuck up. That's old."
"Yeah, but-"
"Can't talk to you now, Kanye just tweeted about his new bath towels."

meme wrote:
I dunno about stuff you want to read about. The celebrities, writers and people I investigated following almost always A) never post at all, B) just share stuff that's doing the rounds, or C) actually turn out to be complete dicks. I was actually put off Arrested Development for a while because it transpired that Jason Bateman is actually kind of stupid.